Martin Crockett

Website Making How To

Very good list of tips, resources and reference material. Rated.

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Swaroop C H

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Paul Terry Walhus

Keep your iTunes library on an external hard drive

1,000 songs in your pocket? How about 20,000?

My current iTunes library contains 10,152 songs: 52.08Gb which doesn’t include ~30Gb of music unprocessed on another external hard drive.
I’ll be following the steps in the link below to consolidate my music library. Fingers crossed.

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How To: keep your iTunes library on an external hard drive

10 Steps for Cleaning Up Information Pollution

This is article from 2004 is still essential reading, something many individuals and companies I’ve worked with recently could take advice from.

1. Don’t check your email all the time.
2. Don’t use “reply to all” when responding to email.
3. Write informative subject lines for your email messages.
4. Create a special email address for personal messages and newsletters.
5. Write short.
6. Avoid IM (instant messaging) unless real-time interaction will truly add value to the communication.
7. Answer common customer questions on your website using clear and concise language.
8. User test your intranet.
9. Don’t circulate internal email to all employees.
10. Establish a company culture in which it’s okay not to respond to email immediately.

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Jakob Nielsen’s useit.com

5 Ways to Build Your Virtual Office

When it comes to running a business, our feet are firmly on the ground but our data and software are increasingly in the cloud.

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Entrepreneur.com

Valid YouTube and Vimeo code

Death to the EMBED tag!

YouTube and Vimeo currently provide invalid embedding code to video with OBJECT tag. There are four steps to modify this:
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